Jazz News

Tomas Fujiwara Exploring the Drums' Potential as an Orchestra in Miniature

Source: Michael Ricci
May 2, 2010

The drummer Tomas Fujiwara works with rhythm as a pliable substance, solid but ever shifting.

Over the last five years he has established a busy profile on the experimental end of the jazz spectrum, where such perspective is vital; before that he was a cast member of “Stomp," the polymorphously percussive Off Broadway show. His style is forward-driving but rarely blunt or aggressive, and never random. He has a way of spreading out the center of a pulse while setting ...

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Actor Cast for Charles Musical

Source: All About Jazz
May 2, 2010

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Jazz: A History of America's Music (Hardcover)

Source: All About Jazz
May 2, 2010

Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns deserve far more than simple gratitude for bringing jazz to the limelight with this lavishly illustrated volume. The book features among its 500-plus pictures many of the previously unseen shots of musicians and venues glimpsed in Burns's 10-part documentary, Jazz. Continuing in the tradition of their critically acclaimed works, Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns vividly bring to life the story of the quintessential American music--jazz. Born in the black community of turn-of-the-century New ...

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iPhone Finder Regrets His Mistake

Source: All About Jazz
May 2, 2010

The person who found and sold an Apple iPhone prototype says he regrets not doing more to return the device to its owner, according to a statement provided by his attorney Thursday in response to queries from Wired.com. Brian J. Hogan, a 21-year-old resident of Redwood City, California, says although he was paid by tech site Gizmodo, he believed the payment was for allowing the site exclusive access to review the phone. Gizmodo emphasized to him that there was nothing ...

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10th Annual Jazz Party at Sea

Source: All About Jazz
May 2, 2010

The 10th Annual Jazz Party at Sea is happening November 6 - 13, 2010.

Guests will enjoy performances by the Heath Brothers, the Freddy Cole Quartet, Steve Turre, Larry Coryell, the Mulgrew Miller Trio, Larry Gray, the Marcus Belgrave Sextet, the Dena DeRose Trio, Sherri Maricle & The Diva Jazz Orchestra and many, many more. The seven day cruise sails from Orlando to several Caribbean Islands, including the Bahamas, St. Thomas and St. Maarten.

We stage the Annual Jazz Party ...

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KKJZ-FM Los Angeles Makes Lineup Changes

Source: All About Jazz
May 2, 2010

Jazz station KKJZ-FM (88.1) is adding a new program to its weekend schedule, “Bebop and More," featuring music by classic artists such as Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Thelonious Monk along with contemporary performers such as Christian Scott. It will air Saturdays from 7 to 10 p.m. and Sundays from 8 to 11 p.m., beginning this weekend. Dropped from the lineup are “Jazz at Lincoln Center Radio With Wynton Marsalis" and “Jazz Inspired With Judy Carmichael." “Radio Deluxe With John ...

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MOJA Radio/WEEKLY FEATURES: May 3-9, 2010

Source: Michael Ricci
May 2, 2010

This Monday, May 3rd, we'll present another edition of our special feature, MONDAY WITH THE MASTERS on MOJA Radio. This time the focus is on one of the most important drummers in jazz today, LENNY WHITE, while we celebrate the recent release of his latest solo album, the brilliant “Anomaly." You'll hear all about his beginnings in New York City and his emergence at a very young age including Jackie McClean, Miles Davis and Freddie Hubbard. You'll hear how he ...

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Accolades Continue for Singer-Songwriter Scott Miller's Album 'For Crying out Loud'

Source: 1888 Media
May 2, 2010

LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Scott Miller is best known for non-stop touring with his band the Commonwealth, for being one of the founders of the seminal roots rock band The V-Roys and for his eight prior critically acclaimed albums including the recent Appalachian Refugee Demos. In fact, it was with proceeds from Internet sales of these demos made with a Marantz hard-disc recorder (with handmade cover art for each copy) that he financed For Crying Out Loud. The album, released ...

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